Show Details: December 1999
1999-12-04
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about emergencies in the news; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about something high-tech that really didn't need to go high-tech; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next rule for Sylvester Stallone's employees?
The rules for the Listener Limerick Challenge were read by Scott Turow.
The listener contestant for the second Who's Carl This Time? segment was calling in from the South Pole, Antarctica.
The Bluff the Listener contestant was looking each of the Bluff the Listener stories online to see which panelist was telling the truth. Peter Sagal jokingly said that the listener was cheating.
1999-12-11
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 7 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about Main Street America; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about an unlikely lecture; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next hidden talent of Al Gore's to be revealed?
The show page on NPR.org has details for the show that aired on 1999-11-27.
1999-12-18
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 2)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about a kinder, gentler law enforcement; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a one-of-a-kind package tour; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what the United States will give away next?
1999-12-25
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about winter holidays from the past or afar; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about Santa problems in the modern world; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: how a famous politician might be reincarnated?
Year in Review edition of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!